Imagine a polaroid camera that shreds the picture if it's deemed not original enough :)
Although we know that the subject of both photos are the same, what's interesting is that to a first approximation, they appear to be pictures of entirely different things. We were commenting how radically different can be the interpretation of two different artists when seeing the same thing.
The error that the OP makes is that what makes the photo is what you're taking a picture of. At least in the art of photography, that's barely the beginning of it. A photograph is something that the artist creates, not something that he takes of a particular thing.
To be pedantic, it can be either.
I do hobby photography that I take fairly seriously ( http://gmcbay.com/ ), but sometimes I really just take a snapshot of a thing just to document that thing, without thinking about the lighting or the composition or anything -- just want to post it up on ebay or facebook or whatever for illustration, not trying to have it be "art".
Many (probably most?) photographs are in the "taken" group as opposed to the "created", I'd think.
That will end up generating many similar pictures taken from near one area and within a short time.
If you want to take family pictures of a race event, just use a regular camera, not a specialised artistic one.
Of course not. But please note that all cameras that do not include the GPS restriction feature to ensure that they are not being used to photograph either copyrighted or protected scenes will now have a protection tax that will be used to cover the litigation and enforcement costs resulting from the misuse of such cameras. Regulation is also currently being purposed to require the sale of cameras which can so easily be abused to be restricted only to licensed individuals. To ensure your best experience with these new anti-terrorism measures, your ownership of existing cameras will be grandfathered in.
You might also be excited to know that we are currently working on updates that will also help protect children by ensuring that no photo of a child can be taken without his or her parents' express approval! More details will be released soon!